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A terrifying video has emerged online that claims to show a nine-year-old boy being brutally executed by members of a Shia militia. The military force accused the child of being a supporter of the Islamic State terror group, ISIS.
According to several reports, the clip was recorded in Tikrit - a...

Now that the weather’s turning warmer, many people are overcome by two urges: to get outside and to get it on. Two great tastes that taste great together! And so the season of outdoor sex has begun. But it’s not all fun and games like naked Slip ’n Slide — there are some...

Vaping enthusiasts worldwide are cheering a decision by British regulators granting alicense to an e-cigarette – as a prescription to quit smoking traditional cigarettes.
The Guardian reported that "Britain's drug regulators have given the go-ahead for a British American Tobacco...

As gloomy headlines multiplied in the wake of last year's Brexit vote, four Britons decided to cheer up their divided country by setting a new world record for skydiving. Naked.
Pete Sharwood-Smith, Gary Lincoln-Hope, Pete Cheek and Olly Aylott jumped from a plane 22,400 feet above a Kenyan...

Russia's leading economic thinkers say the country needs bold action to avoid stagnation. After President Vladimir Putin set out his ideas for the economy in a keynote speech on Friday, they are still waiting to hear what that action will be.
Addressing the St Petersburg International Economic...

By Greg Torode and Michael Martina HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China is steadfastly opposed to the deployment of advanced U.S. anti-missile radars in South Korea because it does not know whether the defenses, intended for North Korean missiles, are capable...

By James Pomfret and Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - With China's preferred candidate selected as Hong Kong's next chief executive, another blow to the morale of the city's democracy activists, their young leaders are taking a page from Beijing's...

Remains of an ancient pyramid, believed to date back some 3,700 years, were found in Egypt, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The ruins are near the bent pyramid of the first pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty.An Egyptian excavation team discovered the remains of the pyramid, which date back to...

By Denis Pinchuk ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - The presidents of Russia and Belarus said on Monday they had resolved all disputes over energy, signaling a rapprochement at a time when both leaders are grappling with street protests and the threat of new Western...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli paramilitary police officers shot dead a Palestinian on Saturday after he stabbed three Israelis in Jerusalem's Old City, a police spokesman said. The assailant wounded two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the street...

By Teresa Cespedes LIMA (Reuters) - Public prosecutors in Peru have opened a preliminary probe into the country's former President Alan Garcia as part of a far-reaching inquiry into bribes that Brazilian builder Odebrecht SA has acknowledged distributing to win...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer on Friday signed into law a bill approved by the Congress last week to allow companies to outsource jobs, a measure fiercely opposed by unions. This is one of the first moves by the government to reform the...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's murder rate rose to an average 60 per day last year, up from about 45 per day in 2015, the attorney general's office said on Friday, as a deep economic and political crisis exacerbated violence in the country. Official data put the...

By Daniela Desantis and Luc Cohen ASUNCION (Reuters) - Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay's Congress on Friday after the Senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President...

By Ben Blanchard and David Lawder BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beijing sought to play down tensions with the United States and put on a positive face on Friday as the U.S. administration slammed China on a range of business issues ahead of President Xi Jinping...